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Thursday, April 28, 2011

Delays in Russian spares force India to go shopping worldwide

MiG-23 FloggerSignalling its impatience over delays in Russian after-sales- support for military equipment, India has for the first time gone shopping worldwide for spares for its vintage fighter jets, transport aircraft, helicopters, missiles and radars.

The government has issued global tenders to international suppliers to urgently replenish its stocks of spares for MiG-23, MiG-27 and MiG-29 combat planes, IL-76 heavy-lift planes, IL-78 midair refuelers, all Mi-series of helicopters, Pechora and OSA-AK air defence missiles and P-18 and P-19 radars.

The shopping list also includes engines for MiG-27 combat planes and AN-32 transport aircraft and spares for ST-68 long-range radars. These tenders are said to be worth several million dollars.

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